[License-discuss] [Board] Alternative Proposal: The OSI licensing pages

[Lawrence Rosen]

Sorry, it is my day to cause unnecessary confusion. "LER" is my initials. It is me. /Larry


-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Fogel [mailto:kfogel at red-bean.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 12:29 PM
To: lrosen at rosenlaw.com
Cc: license-discuss at opensource.org; board at opensource.org
Subject: Re: [Board] Alternative Proposal: The OSI licensing pages

"Lawrence Rosen" <lrosen at rosenlaw.com> writes:
>LER recommends that this is what the OSI landing page ought to say:

I got confused by the "LER", or maybe by the quoting conventions in the email (since it seems to have been done via colorization rather than by nested ">"s ?).  Anyway, was it you who wrote the above line, and if so, does "LER" refer to you, or if not, then to whom?

Btw, in case the above sounds sarcastic: it's not.  Genuine confusion, genuine attempt to resolve it, nothing more.

Thanks,
-K

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>An alphabetical listing of all Currently Approved open source licenses 
>is shown here. <link>
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>The Currently Approved list excludes those licenses that have been 
>replaced with more recent versions (in which case the most recent 
>version has been listed above), or that have been deprecated by their 
>original authors. A list of Replaced and Deprecated licenses can be 
>found here. <link>
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>Several organizations maintain lists of licenses that they prefer to be 
>used for contributions or that they recommend for their community 
>participants. Among these Preferred lists are the following:
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>·        Free Software Foundation (FSF) <link>
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>·        OSI License Proliferation Committee Report <link> [to be 
>updated someday?]
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>·        Apache Software Foundation <link>
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>·        Eclipse Foundations <link>
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>·        Google/Android <link>
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>·        Mozilla Foundation <link>
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>·        Linux Foundation <link>
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>·        Open Solaris <link>
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>·        Etc.
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>Various organizations identify Popular open source licenses based on 
>surveys and other criteria. These lists are available on their
>websites:
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>·        Black Duck Software <link>
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>·        Etc.
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